List of Famous people born in Occitania, France
Ringo
Ringo, in Toulouse, Occitanie, France, also known as Ringo Willy Cat is a French pop–singer, who became famous in the seventies. According to Billboard magazine he "enjoyed a huge amount of sales" with various hits. Ringo was cited by Billboard as an example of a French artist having a big impact in exporting French songs to the international arena and creating international hits despite the existing language barrier which the French artists face abroad. He was married to Sheila, a female French singer. Ringo's career ended in the mid–'80s.
Julien Denormandie
Julien Denormandie is a French engineer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Minister of Agriculture in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex since 2019.
François Trinh-Duc
François Trinh-Duc is a French rugby union player for Racing 92 in France's top division of rugby union, the Top 14. Trinh-Duc's regular position is at fly-half or inside centre.
Pierre Soulages
Pierre Soulages is a French painter, engraver, and sculptor. In 2014, François Hollande described him as "the world's greatest living artist."
Marine Delterme
Marine Delterme is a French actress, painter, sculptor and former model.
Nicole Bacharan
Nicole Bacharan is a historian and political scientist specializing in American society and French-American relations. She is a researcher with the National Foundation for Political Science and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California from 2013 to 2014.
Ève Angeli
Vanessa Annelyse Ève Garcin, better known by her stage name Ève Angeli is a French pop singer, who won an NRJ Music Award for Best New French Artist in 2000–2002.
Mohammed Merah
Mohammed Merah was a French, of Algerian origin, self-proclaimed jihadist who admitted to killing seven people, including three children, in several shootings in southwestern France in March 2012. He was killed on 22 March 2012 following a police siege and standoff.
Franck Azéma
Franck Azéma is a French rugby union footballer and is the Head coach of Top 14 side ASM Clermont Auvergne. He played as a centre.
Augustin Trébuchon
Augustin-Joseph Victorin Trébuchon was the last French soldier killed during World War I. He was shot 15 minutes before the Armistice came into effect, at 10.45am on 11 November 1918. The French Army, embarrassed to have sent men into battle after the armistice with the Germans had been signed, recorded the date of his death as earlier by one day.